MVP — what is it and what does it do

Minimum Viable Product, MVP, - in our world, it is an application that has the minimum functionality, capable of covering the user's needs.

Development is expensive: a team of programmers has to build a digital solution to an idea, with a nice interface and without bugs. But businesses (often) don't have the money to pay long development fees first. There is only an idea.

To test the idea, they create an MVP. They choose key features, weed out the unnecessary ones, make a list of "would-be-do-it-if-we-have-time" features, make a plan, and decide: will this functionality be enough to test our idea? If the answer is yes, people will use the app even without the secondary functionality - then it's ok, we can keep sawing.

But in MVP applications we need to cut off not only the functionality.

There is also refactoring, for example. At some moment you will want to return to the old code and clean it up a bit. Make it more readable, standardize it. If this refactoring doesn't bring notable relief to the developers, you need to postpone it until after the release. Or tests. They are necessary and important, but not for MVP (debatable, I agree, it depends on the project). In my experience, MVP application code testing was increasing development time by 25-40%, not giving the desired output. We were wasting time covering tests that didn't help us much, delaying development.

All of this can and should be turned a blind eye if we're doing MVPs. The business doesn't care how this button is created, whether it's a method widget or just an object widget. For it the main thing is that there is a button, and it at least works. And it doesn't slow us down. Hence, we don't need to work on it at the moment.

Ideally, of course, the team should meet together at the beginning of the project and agree on what they do and don't do. You can write manuals and recommendations. Or we could say: guys, we've got some crap in our code here, let's not do this anymore. The point is, our job is to get it up and running as quickly as possible. After all, the application could be so useless that we won't continue development at all. So why do we need code that is 100% covered by tests and doesn't contain a single anti-pattern if we're not going to work on it?

Yes, we'll have to roll out an application with shitty code. But if this code solves a business problem and is able to attract the first money, it's not such a shitty code. After all, it solved the main problem. To get it up and running. From there we look at user feedback, fix what we need, and try to get some time for refactoring.

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